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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-07
YOMANHOOD IN INDIA.
Sad Condition of Pagan Widows Described
by Pundita Ramabai.

Sad Condition of Pagan Widows Described
by Pundita Ramabai.
Report in Springfield Republican.
Woman is unwelcome in the Hindoo family at
her very birth. This prejudice is partially due
to the tradition that mans salvation is depend
ent male offspring, as the son is supposed to
offer sacrifice for the father. The highest bless
ing pronounced on woman is "Mayst thou be
the mother of five sons and may thy husband
survive thee" A man doesn't mind having
few daughters but wants boys for his frst-born.
and is allowed by law TO desert his wife for an
other if she produces no male offspring in
eleven years after marriage. girl can
inherit nothing, and grandsons are re-
cognized as sons where the father
has only family of daughters. AS the girl
grows up her condition is degraded. When nine
years old she is betrothed and the future moth
er-in-law has the right to take her to her own
home and train her she likes. This training
has grown to be abusive. and each girl longs for
the position of mother-in-law, so that she may
have Der turn in exercising authority. AT tif-
teen the girl is married and becomes the slave of
her husband, not being allowed to speak to him
in the presence of third person, and being
subjected to frequent beatings. which are
regarded as the husbands religious
duty. There two avenues of hops
in woman's life One is the honor and respect
which is paid there to mothers and the other
grows out of the theory of the tradsmigration
of souls In this doctrine she has reason to
hope that if she loves husband and thinks
become d man in the future world. The alter
native is a hell apart from men. and long suffer-
ing women often anticipate the latter as a
relief from brutal husbands. Even betrothed
girl becomes widow en- the death of her in
tended husband, and widows lot is peculiarly
hard. She is regarded with suspicion as
evil spirit, and her husbands death
Is supposed to be due to some crime
she has committed for which she is
doomed to lifelong penance, so that many
seek relief in suicide or are driven to lives of
shame. There are educated women, however,
but against 200 600 of these, there are millions
who cannot read write. There are 10000
widows, onefourth of whom are Brahmins and
cannot marry again without losing caste. In
this class lies the hope of enlghtening Hindoo
womanhood. These women are free to study
and have access to houses which missionaries
cannot reach. The English government has
done much for civilization, but it caters to
heather customs for fear of giving offense. The
attempt to change the laws SO that widows may
re-marry has failed, and is at present imprac-
tical,
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Minor Notes.

The ladies of the Franklin Baptist Church are
conducting the largest and most successful loan
exhibition ever given in that town. 1t will con-
tinue through the week.
young daughter of John Shenkel living sew
eral miles from Huntington, was playing about
she was so horribly burned ths<Ndeath followed
in few minutes.
Within a few weeks cares Of scarlet fever
have rapidly increased in the eastern part of
Terre Haute. and yesterday. it is reported,
there four deaths in one family within
twenty-four hours
Argus Dean and the Hon. j. H. Stotsenbere,
the boundary line between Clark and jefferson
counties report the buds all safe far. and the
prospects good for an abundant yield of the
fruit next summer.
The sale of the Madison wooden mill, which
was set for yesterday has been postponed until
Thursday May 5. The postponement was
effected by petition presented to the judge of
the Circuit Court, by the creditors It Is hoped
that. pending the sale, plan will be
adopted under which the mill will be started
The Delaware County Stock breeders Associa.
ton Yesterday held its annual meeting for the
election of officers. Lewis Moore, of Hamilton
township, was elected president for the ensuin e
year. A committee of five appointed to CO.
operate with the Muncie Board of Trade for the
advancement of the interests of Muncie and
Delaware county.
The Bunker Hill Natural gas, Oil and Fuel
Company have collected sufficient amount OF
money 20 sink a ,00O-foot we'll at that place,
and are now ready to receive bids for the work
The directors will meet the 18th of April to
consider bids and award contracts Bunker
Hill is situated on the highest general elevation
between the Ohio river and Lake Michigan;
limestone is very near the surface and tho peo-
pie are sanguine of success In prospecting for
gas or OIL
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A FREE ADVERTISEMENT.
George WEIGH Adopts Very Effective Method
for Making known His Wishes.

George WEIGH Adopts n Very Effective Method
for Making known His Wishes.
WASHINGTON, April 6.--Postmaster general
Villas has heard from a Charley Ross. or. at
least, a lost boy. Within day or two he re-
ceived the following letter, postmarked Mount
Pisgah, Ind, April 2, 1887 and, by giving the
letter to the press, ne proposes to advertise the
writer's inquiries widely as possible. The
lost boys letter reads:
s'Alr General Postmaster in Washington
What will you charge me to advertise my name
and put it in the papers and send it in to every
postohice in the United States, and / would like
10 have you send the first advertisement out to
Boston, Mass, for that is the place where was
born and / was shipped FROM and was brought
out West to town called Sturgis. Mich, by
man of the name of Z. II. Graham. and was
stoled, and l don't anything about my
folks, and / would like to have you
find them for me if you Send the adver-
tsement out round Boston, Mass, first and if
you can find them, find their adrest and their
name and let me Rite soon. and let me no
what you will charge for your trouble for
finding any OF them, and my brothers name, to.
frankie Weleh. Advertise his name to in the
papers; direct GEORGE WEIGH.
mt Pisgah, Ind"
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Squelching Fiat Money Man.

Washington Letter.
Several years ago. when the people of Ohio
were crazy on the imitation idea, went with
Sheridan to make speech at Canton. He had
an immense audience. and among other citizens
of distinction was a venerable man who had
been the Greenback candidate for the United
States Senate when Judge Thurman was elected
the last time. Sheridan was explaining the diff
ference between real money and the fiat variety,
and by way of illus ration had Pompeiian
coin. He held it up and said:
''This, ladies and gentlemen is money-real
money 1t always has been money, and it al
fire and it will not burn; you can bury it in the
ground and it will not rot The government
that issued it has been buried under pile of
lava tor 200 years, and yet this coin is worth
much as when it was originally issued. Moth
ing can detract from it's value And this" he
continued. holding up a ST. greenback sis not
money. 1t is simply promise to pay, and if
our government should fail it would be worth
less. 1t is not only not money, but it cannot be
made money, and even if the government of the
United Stetes should print all over its front side
and its back side, This is dollar, it would not
90 n dollar"
At this point the old gentleman who had run
for the Senate against Judge Thurman got up
and begged leave to ask question.
do l understand you to say, Colonel Sheri-
dan. that if the government of the United States
printed the words This is dollar on that note
that it would not be dolarP
IF the Legislature of Ohio should print on
your trousers, This is Allen g. Thurman.
would you be Senator of the United States?'
replied Sheridan, instantly.
The old gentleman never smiled again.
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A Negro Legend.

At the creation of Adam, Satan set about imi-
tating the work, and. taking quantity of sand.
succeeded quite we'll in making a man. But as
everything that Satan touches becomes black,
his man was naturally of that color Seeing
this Satan undertook to wash him white in the
river Jordan, but the water flowed back as soon
as he approached it. and there was nothing left
but very little water in the bottom of the
stream. which just covered the bottom of the.
mans feet and the palms of his hands. which ex-
plains the fact that their hands and feet are not
as dark the rest of their bodies.
Furious at discovering that his attempt was
in vain, Satan struck his poor creature terri
BILE blow upon the nose, which aattened it GU.
forever The unhappy man asked for mercy,
whereupon Satan, realizing that his condition
was not his own fault. and feeling certain
amount OF pity for him, passed his hand in a
sort of caress over the mans head. but the terri
bile heat of the hand served the purpose of curl
ing lron and 'frizzed' the hair so that it has re-
manned woolly ever sincs
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Altogether Too Artistic.


Black silk. so says lady correspondent, is the
only underwear considered proper 1t should be-
trimmed with black lace. and is a general
thing very becoming. One of the slippery days
not long ago, two girls were walking down the
avenue, one of the two is perfectly frantic on
the subject of art-she eats har-
monies, dreams nocturres and lives
symphonies in color Her companion
slipped. fell. crash went some of the underwear,
her skirts were thrown aside. and as she lay on
the ground perfectly helpless, with one leg under
her. there decided display of flesh tnts
The artist friend. instead of helping her up i'm
mediately, said, .Oh, Rose. do keep still for u
minute, you are the most delightful study
imaginable in black and flesh tintsn Roses IN
ciguation helped her to get up, and since then
she positively refuses TO speak of her friend ex-
cept as that nasty girLn
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Philadelphia Times.
sIt is singular fact that free churches are
rarely well attended Wherever the system of
having all pews free has been tried it has besp
found that the attendance dropped off People
do not want their church attendance
wholly free. They crowd the reDted-pew
churches where they hear the best music
and oftenest the best sermons. 1t is rule
with both free-pew and rented-pew churches
that the regular worshiDers are the people who
alone can be depended upon to make contribu-
tions sufficiently large to meet the necessary ex-
penses 1t is the regular attendants not the
transients. who keep the free churches rum
ming. The average stranger-often the
very one who writes to the newspapers
complaining of the GOODNESS of this
or that wealthy church-has remained
through the service. listened to the best sacred
music the country affords. and heard a sermon
that took years of preparation and hours Of
midnight oil to think out, and at the close has
placed a nickel on the offertory plate. Some
months ago, when pennies were reported to be
SO scarce. there was no diminution in the num-
Der that found their way to the collection plates
of even the wealthiest of Philadelphia congrega-
tons
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Changes at the Southern Prison.

Jefersonvi1le News.
Mr.. VIM. Gorham who has been a guard at
the State Prison South for twenty years.
and during that time filed temporarily all the
official positions in that institution, and recog-
nized as one of the most competent and faithful
employees, was asked to resign this morning.
Mr.. Gorham rendered his resignation at once
which was Immediately accepted.
From the outlook it is probable that all the
employees under the Howard administration will
be set aside. Another guard named Knackley,
who is a brother of the Vncennes postmaster,
was also discharged on the ground that there
were more men than were needed. The State
owes both of these gentlemen under Warden
Towards administration four months salary, or
$240. Mr.. Patton paid Mr.. Gorham for his serv-
ices since he took charge of the prison.
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The Schwartz-Watt Trial.

MORRIS, April 6-The testimony of the con-
Wet. William ]. Gallagher. was continued to-day
in the Schwartz-Watt murder trial. Gallagher
detailed several purported conversations he
had had with Schwartz in the Cook
county Jail. Schwartz was anxious
to have Gallagher take $1,000 which
was in one hundred-dollar bills. and have it
changed to five and ten-dollar notes, and offered
to pay Gallagher $500 if he would arrange the
matter. Gallagher asked Schwartz If the money
was part of the proceeds of the Rock Island ex-
press robbery. Schwartz declared that it was
not He said that Jew had left a satchel on
the Rock Island train. and that he had found
the money in this satchel.
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Obituary.

New YORK, April 6-Sir VIM. Owen Layon,
K c., who arrived liz this city about week ago
from England, and who was stopping in this
city, died to-day from cancer of the jaw.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, April 6-Hon. Edwin
Cross judge Of the federal court of the Terri
tory of Arkansas from 1882 to 1885, and mem Der
Of the Twenty sixth, Twenty seventh and
Twenty-eighth Congresses from Arkansas, died
to-day aged eighty nine years.
WASHINGTON, April 6-Hon. d. Wyatt Aiken
late Representative in Congress from the Third
South Carolina district, died at his home in
Cokesbury, s. c., this morning aged fifty nine
He had been i'll for a long time and a severe
fall received during the Forty eighth Congress
compelled his removal to his home which he
was unable to leave to attend the sessions of the
Forty ninth Congress-. He was for five success
i've terms elected to Congress-
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Cable Notes.

The Pope persists that Dr. McGlynn must
come to Rome
Prince Alexander of Battenberg has again de-
cliued to be reelected as ruler of Bulgaria.
Queen Victoria has arrived at Aix-les- Bains
from Cannes. Her Majesty is much fatigued
after the journey
The Pope is about to issue letter sanctioning
the principle Of the creation of Catholic uni
versity at Baltimore.
Ex-Secretary Manning was unable to take
outdoor exercise yesterday. owing to the preva-
lence of easterly winds. His condition is not SO
satisfactory.
The Swiss government has resolved to pro-
coed vigorously against the Socialists and An
archists, whose recent activity is thought to be
calculated to disturb the peace of the State.
Doyle. the invincble. has been released on
ticketof-leave. He complains of the treatment
he received while in confinement, and alleges
that the prison authorities single out Irish con-
victs for especially hard pupishments.
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AS COSTLY AS JEWELS.
Immense Sums of Money Spent Upon Flow
ers That Fade in q Few Hours.

ers That Fade in a Few Hours.
New York Mail and Express.
During the fashionable social season more
money is spent for cut flowers in this city than
for Jewels. Since the English fashion of plant
decoration has become so popular in America
immense amounts are every season expended for
the loan of foliage specimens. The moving of
plants in frosty weather is attended with great
risk. and the exposure to gas light and the iostle
of throngs do further damage. Most florists
who have large and ostly collections reserve
greenhouse for a hospital where plants
damaged when loaned are placed for recupera-
ton.
For decorating drawing-rooms when a we'd
ding is to take place, from $500 to $1,000 gives a
handsome distribution of choice plants and flow
ers An Easter-tid wedding will occur where
wide bay-wndow is to be made into grotto.
and filled with blooming plants. There will
be profusion of hybrid roses on tho
manteis, under the mirrors, in corner
vases and fire,places The decoration
de Rothschid Mabel Morrison and the like, cost
from ST. to ST. so each. The new Puritan rose.
not large, but OF exquisite beauty and pre-
serving its perfection week, is sold for ST. Sc
cents each and fine Perles des Jardins are from
thirty to forty cents. The rosest of all roses.
La France, in color and perfume, brings from
fifty cents to 81. according TO size.
A society leader. VINO is about giving today
the sixth of her Saturday dinner partiet has a
partially for the Annie de Diesbach rose, which
has been dubbed Gloire de Paris by a florist.
Twelve dozen Of these roses arranged in sill
yer vases on her table They cost 81 each. and
besides this the taste in arrangement must be
considered in the bill. Dinner decorations cost
from S25 which pays for pretty centerpiece of
tulips or dubious bloom to $500. An orchid table
embellishments, when satin cover is furnished
is worth $500 Orchid flowers bring from sc
cents to 81. 80 each. and sprays cost from So tc
s.. An orchid wedding bunch is not made ur
for less than $50. Wedding bouquets Of bride
roses and lilies worth from Sl5 to So.
The regular customers for cut flowers are
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Great Excitement in Hayti.

HAVANA. April 6-Advices from Port an
Prince dated March 26, say Excitement
continues throughout the republic over the de-
mand of England for the possession of Tortugas
island or the payment of 81, 900. 900 in settle
ment Of old claims It is reported that special
British envoy has presented Englands ultima
tum to the Hayrian government, and has threat
ened the bombardine of the principal ports Of
the republic after the Lapse of five days if Eng
lands claim be not acknowledged. Great con.
sternation exists among the foreign residents,
as it is stated that the Haytians menace gen.
eral massacre of foreigners if the President
yields to England's demands"
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Tyranny in Alsace-Lorraine.

BERLIN. April 6-The Journal de Geneve
which is noted for its impartial treatment of in
ternational questions, says the Reichsland is sub
jected to al iron regime. Most honorable citi-
zens are arrested without apparent cause
dragged through the streets like COM
mon thieves. and immured in some
fortress during the pleasure of their rulers
The bare fact of having worn purchased arti-
cles of dress whose colors recall the French flag
or subscribing to disaffected paper. is consid-
cred a crime and the offender is punished with
several months Imprisonment. 1.-THE details, I"
says the Journal. would strike US as exagger-
ated were they not vouched for By witnesses
whose good faith is beyond dispute"
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

A Number of Changes To Be Made in the
German Diplomatic Service.
BERLIN, April 6.-The resignation of Herr
Won Kendell. German ambassador to Rome, is
officially made public, and his supersedure will
be taken advantage of to make other diplomatic
changes The impression has generally obtained
that Herr Won Rodowitz. ambassador at Con-
stantinople. will go to London in place of Count
Won Hatsfeld, who will succeed Herr Won Ken
dell at Rome. Count Won Salms- Son nenswade
ambassador at Madrid, will probably be trans
not at present in the German diplomatic service
selected to represent the empire at Madrid.
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Real Estate Activity at Muncie.
,ial 10 the Indiananolia Journa,


MUScIE, April 6-The present activity in real
estate dealing in Muncie and Delaware county
has never been equaled in the history Of the
county. The hotels are crowded with capitalists
from distance. and the all-absorbng topic of
conversation everywhere is the real-estate boom.
Three new firms of real-estate dealers have gone
into business within a week, and all the dealers
are doing "land-office business" The tendency
is to higher prices, but extravagant figures
have not so far been INDUCED in. Henry Marsh
to-day sold tract of land south of the citv to
the Harris syndicate for 900. Piper Bros.
and Kah Bros. of Sidney. o., bought lot on
the square, of Volney Wilson. twenty-five feet
front, for S.. 600. Mrs. E. II. Swain sold her
lots in the suburb. Anthonytown for 500. 600.
Col. Dan Mead, president of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank. of Dayton, O.. invested in property
here yesterday for which he paid $50, 900, and
syndicate headed by Judge Swing, of Cincinnati.
are buying largely.
Gas we'll No. was drilled into Trenton rock
to-day, and big flow of gas followed.
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accident and deaths at Savoy. was decided to-
day, giving verdict against the Illinois Contra!
railway for $1,000 in favor of Mrs. Jas. Neer.
whose husband was engineer on the train. This
is the highest amount allowed under the Illinois
statutes. The verdict puts the responsibility on
the managers of the road, on the theory that en-
eineer Neer was required to make the trip at a
hien rate of speed and given no notice that an
other train was on the track. many hours off
time. He dashed into this train at great speed
as it stood on the track at Savoy.
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LaPOrte Will Try for Gas.

Special to tho IndlanapoIIs Journal
LAPoRTE, April 6.-LaPorte is alive and
awake to the gas-well project and last nights
public meeting at the City Hall was largely at
tended and much enthusiasm was displayed. A
stock company, known as the LaPorte Gas and
Exploring Company, was organized with shares
at $40, no one individual to own more than ten
shares. Five Thousand dollars was subscribed
and the work of selecting boring site and let
ting the contract for sinking we'll will at once
begin Persons who supposed to be we'll in
formed in the natural gas business think that
LaPorte is on a line with the Kokomo reservoir.
and therefore stands good show of success. If
so, this town will have boom such as it never
dreamed Of
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Foreign Views of Coercion.

BERLIN, April 6.-The Vossische Zeitune says
the passage of the coercion bill by the English
Parliament must forever shatter the last rem
nants of friendship between the passers of the
bill and those who are subjected to the severity
of its terms.
VIENNA, April 6.-The Neue Freie Presse says
the Irish coercion bill may possibly reduce the
volume of crime in Ireland, but it can never
have the effect to change the enmity of the peo-
pie into a feel of loyalty to the empire.
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Telegraphic Brevities.

Rev. c. s. Nickerson, OF the Beverly Univer
salst Church, at Salem, Mass, has received and
SO, 900.
A bill was passed by the PENNSYLVANIA Senate
yesterday providing that the punishment for
murder IN the first degree may be death by the
use of electricity.
AS result of the recent tragedy in Avery
street, Boston, house No. 10l, Brattle square,
which has beer a gambling den for twenty five
years, has been closed.
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A Geological Definition.

Harvard Lampoon.
Editor-EthelDert, has anyone called during
nv absrncel
Ethelbert-Yis sor Misther Murphy called fur
the rint
Editor-Mr Murphy is an 'ornithorhyncus.
Ethelbert-Phat's that, sor.
Editor-It is derived. Ethelbert, from two
Greek words and means beast with q bill.
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Brief Mention.

The establishment of a creamery at Edwards
vile is now assured fact the S., 900 capital
subscribed having been paid up.
Mrs. Kirk. wife of the recently deceased post
master of Atlanta is making an effort to hays
herself appointed her husbands successor.
Bernard Schneider. seventy years old, one of
the oldest and most respected residents OF
Peoria, dropped dead on Tuesday from heart
disease at the Manhattan distillery, where he
held the position of government storekeeper.